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Subject: Re: perfect ordering

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 10:00:28 01/09/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 12:50:12, David Hanley wrote:

>I have seen it claimed somewhere that with perfect move ordering, an eight ply
>search would only consume a thousand nodes or so, even only alphabeta ( no
>hashing or forward pruning ).
>
>Is this so?
>
>dave

Half the plies would be "all"-nodes and the other half would be "one"-nodes. I'm
assuming an extremely simple theoretical situation with no q-search etc. So this
would be of the order 4*40 = 160 I would think. Maybe I'm wrong.

/David



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